Shopping around for an Xbox One? Well, we might have just the deal for you as Amazon are currently giving away the console with Titanfall packed in along with 12 months of Xbox LIVE Gold membership for £361.85. Titanfall is probably at its best on Xbox One (check out Jon's review here), designed as it is with the console's controller in mind, and you'll need that Gold subscription if you want to play online, or indeed do pretty much anything with your XO.

CDKeys are currently selling 12 months of Xbox LIVE Gold Membership for £22.99, but if you go over to their Facebook page and give them a "Like" you can get that price dropped even further down to £21.84.

The Xbox Live Gold fee is no longer mandatory to use services like Netflix or Hulu, but it will be needed for all online multiplayer and to carry on playing your Games with Gold titles since the promotion extended to the Xbox One. It's similar to PS Plus now in that regard, which could also the see the quality (and age) of the free games improve to be more in line with Sony's generous offerings. CD Keys latest offer is comfortably the best price to get yourself a year's membership today.

CDKeys are currently selling 12 months of Xbox LIVE Gold Membership for £24.19, but if you go over to their Facebook page and give them a "Like" you can get that price dropped even further down to £22.99. It's the lowest it's ever been, so be sure to get in there quick.

CDKeys are currently selling 12 months of Xbox LIVE Gold Membership for £24.90, but if you go over to their Facebook page and give them a "Like" you can get that price dropped even further down to £23.65, saving you a tenner on the standard price for such goodness.

'Games With Gold' Confirmed For Xbox One

'Games With Gold' is coming to Xbox One in 2014, Microsoft PR man Larry Hryb tweeted today, meaning that Xbox Live Gold members will be able to download a rotating selection of software for free. Though that's literally the only details we have and will have until next January at the earliest, this announcement is more important than you might think.

See, Microsoft are aware that the playing field is changing as the next console generation fast approaches, and that Xbox Live Gold has to evolve in order to compete with Sony's PlayStation Plus service. But can it evolve fast enough?

It's taken a while for the promised free games to start rolling in for Xbox Live Gold subscribers, but we're seeing mild improvement each month. From today until the 15th of September subscribers can pick up Magic 2013 (aka Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013). On the 16th until the end of the month Rainbow Six Vegas will be available as a free download too.

'Home Gold' Scheme Revealed

Microsoft has announced that every member of a household can access Xbox Live Gold benefits on Xbox One, so long as one Gold account is registered on the system. Better yet, you can take your Gold perks and even digitally-downloaded games to a friends' house and share it with them while you're logged in.

Following their announcement at E3 that Xbox LIVE Gold members would be privy to two free games going forward, Microsoft have revealed that freebies will be dished out on the 1st and 16th of every month between now and the end of the year.

Thirteen months of Xbox LIVE Gold Membership for £29? Yes please! Remember, if you click the 'Like' button near the top (or here), you'll be taken to CDKeys' Facebook page where you'll receive a 5% off voucher to drop the price by 5% (£27.54).

And you get a free hat for your avatar. Wooooo! I wish I could wear hats.

Please note, you're paying for a digital code, not a boxed card. We preach caution with sites like this, but we've never had any issue with CDKeys in the past, usually receiving codes within an hour (often immediately), and the buyer protection offered through Paypal is certainly welcome.

One of the things being hotly debated before today's reveal was whether or not Microsoft would be scrapping their yearly subscription service Xbox Live Gold for their next-gen console, especially given Sony and Nintendo's approach to free online multiplayer.

Well, the answer is "no". Xbox LIVE Gold will still exist on the Xbox One, and will apparently "carry over seamlessly" from Xbox 360, "becoming more valuable than ever," according to the freshly published Xbox One fact sheet.

We don't know exactly what that will entail, nor whether we'll see the price increase because of it, but we're fairly certain that we'll find out soon.

The listed price at the moment is £26.99 (which is still seriously awesome), but if you click the 'Like' button near the top (or here), you'll be taken to CDKeys' Facebook page where you'll receive a 5% off voucher (ours at the time of writing is CDK6767) to drop the price.

Please note, you're paying for a digital code, not a boxed card. We preach caution with sites like this, but we've never had any issue with CDKeys in the past, usually receiving codes within an hour (often immediately), and the buyer protection offered through Paypal is certainly welcome.

We're approaching the silly season for game releases and many of these titles are going to demand to be played online. You'd be forgiven for letting your fees lapse over recent months as there hasn't been a lot to shout about. The XBLA marketplace sometimes has decent subscription offers, but you're usually tied into automatic renewal when that period ends. So this is ideal for a no strings attached subscription just in time for playing the likes of FIFA 13, Black Ops 2, Borderlands 2 and Need For Speed: Most Wanted. You'll also need a Gold subscription to access some high-end demos or the upcoming selection of free-to-play titles. Use this code to save a fiver over the competition: SESEPT5OFF.

Microsoft have reaffirmed their commitment to free-to-play, detailing twtwo releases that will explore the potential of F2P on a home console in a pilot program that will begin with the release of Happy Wars in September, and continue with Ascend: New Gods a month or two later.

Oh it's a good day for Marketplace peripherals. This time, Xbox 360 fans are in luck, with Amazon dropping their price for Gold Membership (RRP £34.99) down to under £28. Chancers will no doubt wait until a glitchy 1-Month for £1 deal comes around again, but if don't want to take your chances, this is a good bet for now. Nice one ctuk!

Microsoft has launched a limited-time promotion to attract new subscribers to Xbox Live Gold (the full Xbox 360 online service). The offer, which is available directly through the Xbox 360 dashboard, gifts new customers Halo: Reach, Fable III, Kinect Sports, The Gunstringer and Toy Soldier for free when they buy a six month Xbox Live Gold subscription for £26.66.

This might seem pricey, but the five games would normally cost £125 if downloaded via Xbox Live.

The promotion is not available to current Xbox Live Gold users and ends on April 3rd 2012. [Gamerzines]

Amazon were the lowest, but now Simply Games have stolen the rug from out underneath them with a sneaky price drop. Anything under £30 is usually a bit of a steal, so treat yourself to a further saving here. Not quite as cheeky as exploiting a glitch for a month per pound deal, but a good price all the same.